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Next June METEF 2022 will Come Back to Bologna METEF, the international fair for aluminium, foundry and innovative metals industry, returns from 9-11 June to BolognaFiere, simultaneously with MECSPE.
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rom automotive to electronics, from transport to mechanical
Like the Aluminium Extrusion Forum, the focus on the use of aluminium
processing, up to the construction industry, over the last
extrusions in various sectors, from construction to mechanics and
decades aluminium is more and more used in everyday life and in
transport. The Light Alloys Castings Foundry Conference will deal with
the industrial field.
the current framework and prospects of the aluminium castings foundry
A sector with “infinite” end use applications, which in 2021, just for the first
through the analysis of the drivers of the industrial, university and
productions and transformations in Italy is worth a turnover of 12 billion
institutional scenario. Looking at the end uses, the automotive sector is
euros (+30% on 2020), employing more than 15 thousand people1, and
of primary importance for aluminium and its alloys, the topic will be the
that for the whole chain, including final uses, counts a turnover of more
focus of the Aluminium and Cars Conference during which the latest news
than 40 billion euros . A sector that will play a strategic role in the pursuit
on materials, technologies and applications will be presented against
of international industrial decarbonisation goals.
the issues relating to lightening, the availability of raw materials and the
Aluminium, in fact, besides being cheap, light and flexible, can be recycled
relevant regulations.
and reused indefinitely in production processes, with extraordinary
Aluminium is considered the “metal of the future” in terms of
positive effects in terms of circular economy and energy saving. This
technological flexibility, circular economy and eco-sustainability, all aspects
is done definitely in order to take advantage of the new challenges
that will be the focus of the Green Aluminium Conference, an event that
and opportunities in the sector that METEF, the international fair for
will take place in Bologna with its second stage, in which the main qualities
aluminium, foundry and die-casting, transformation, processing, finishing
of eco-sustainable aluminium, both primary and secondary production,
and end-use industries, will be returning to BolognaFiere from 9 to 11
will be presented.
June 2022. The event, now organized by Senaf, will be held at the same
Finally, to highlight the work of the key players in the sector,
time as MECSPE, the most important event dedicated to innovations for
the METEF Innovation Award will return in 2022, an international initiative
the manufacturing industry.
which aims to reward the most innovative case histories submitted by
“METEF returns to focus on its role as a national and international driving
enterprises, related to innovation in plants, technologies, products and
force to assist SME in the aluminium sector, which make up about 95%
applications in aluminium and its alloys. A special prize will also be
of the workforce and over 70% of the turnover of the industry in the
awarded to projects aimed at decarbonizing the company system as a
European Union – says Mario Conserva, President of METEF – From
whole.
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Bologna, the new edition of METEF will be projected onto the international scenario and will have to bring together all the players in the supply chain, both national and international, to set up the priorities of this sector. And it will do so by being able to count on the concomitance with the main exhibition for the manufacturing industry, MECSPE, which for years has been a reference point for entrepreneurs who want to innovate production processes.” For 25 years, METEF has been highlighting the main developments in the international light metal industry through a busy program of conferences, events, special initiatives and demonstration activities.
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